Rivka Press Schwartz
Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz is a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She has spent more than 15 years in the field of Jewish secondary and post-secondary education. Rivka currently serves Associate Principal, General Studies at SAR High School in the Bronx, New York. She earned a Ph.D. in History of Science from Princeton University, writing her dissertation about the cultural history of the Manhattan Project. She
Beyond Meritocracy: What Comes Next?
Rivka Press Schwartz examines what lies beyond meritocracy for the United States and for American Jews, who benefited from the rapid advance of meritocracy’s rules in the latter half of the twentieth century.
The concept of meritocracy is that people rise or fall in society based upon their merit, rather than by accidents of birth or background — but now the very idea of meritocracy is under scrutiny for the harm it causes and the racial advantaging and disadvantaging it encodes.
NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Symposium, Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future
